Can a raisin help you get rid of stress immediately?
There is a method, called the “raisin technique”, which will help you unwind and calm down in a minute.
Our daily lives today offer us a thousand reasons to be anxious and worried. Suddenly, where you are relaxed and comfortable, you may have to solve infinite things and time flows torturously fast.
Of course, at this moment, you will lose them and you will panic and you will want to throw the computer out the window.
So before you have a panic attack, get a raisin.
The method
The raisin technique, then, is based on concentration.
More specifically, you focus your gaze and attention on the raisin. You concentrate on it. You carefully observe its appearance, the details of its surface and its texture. You can smell it if you want.
After 20 seconds, hold it close to your ear and try to hear how the fingers rest on it, how you feel its surface on your skin. Finally, put it in your mouth and feel its taste.
The whole phase may sound a bit ridiculous, but to your denial, the success of the method is unquestionable.
How does it work
This two-minute technique is very effective, because it makes you focus for a while on something else and takes you away from the source of your stress.
Of course, you can replace the raisin with anything else you want. It can be a fruit, a chewing gum, any object.
Kareen Griffith, the consciousness counselor who devised this raisin technique, claims that this method will help you to be in control of yourself. Gradually, you will not even need the raisins. You will be able to concentrate on your own. And this is a step towards being able to proceed with meditation exercises.
The next stage
After the raisin technique and after you have become familiar, you can move on to the next stage. This is a series of meditation exercises, which will strengthen you and strengthen you more.
This is the method of five and lasts a maximum of five minutes.
So you spend a few minutes concentrating on observing five things, hearing four sounds, feeling three things (eg your fingers), smelling two things and tasting one.
It is, therefore, a more advanced technique, which will help you calm down and have clarity, in extremely stressful situations.
In any case, raisins are very nutritious and delicious.
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